India Won't Amend Tax Law Until Vodafone Issue Settled

By

Prasanta Sahu And

Anant Vijay Kala

March 4, 2013 10:33 a.m. ET

NEW DELHI--India's finance minister Monday said that the government will wait to resolve a $2 billion dispute with Vodafone Group PLC before making any changes to a law which seeks to retrospectively tax overseas deals involving Indian assets.

"We have decided that the appropriate time to go to parliament is after we have been able to resolve the Vodafone case and get clarity on how that is resolved," P. Chidambaram told...